A seated figure holding a guitar is rendered in overlapping geometric planes in Woman with a Guitar, painted by María Blanchard in 1917. The composition is structured through angular forms and a palette dominated by muted browns, blacks, creams, and deep reds. The figure’s face and hands are simplified into flat, pale shapes, while the guitar is constructed from intersecting segments, with strings and soundhole indicated by linear and circular elements.

The background is similarly abstracted, with no clear indication of setting, emphasizing the formal qualities of shape and color over narrative detail. Woman with a Guitar was created during a period when María Blanchard was closely associated with the Cubist movement in Paris. Cubism, developed in the early twentieth century, sought to break down objects into their basic geometric components and to represent multiple perspectives simultaneously. Blanchard, one of the few women active in this avant-garde circle, often explored musical subjects and the human figure through this visual language.

The work is dated 1917, a time when Cubism was evolving toward greater clarity and structure, moving away from earlier, more fragmented compositions. It belongs to the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.